in Western Evangelist and Baptist Messenger vol. 5 no. 2 (August 1849)
AUTHOR: | Sheppard, Thornton |
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My parents were both born in old Virginia, and their parents came to North Carolina in an early day, and settled on the Yadkin river in Wilkes county, where father and mother both professed a hope in Christ, and mother joined the Regular Baptist Church in her youth, and remained amongst them until her death; and father I think never joined until 1811, though he led an orderly life, and was in the habit of holding prayer in his family. And I was born in the above named county in August the 9th, 1795, and I must say to you as my parents were pious, I received many godly admonitions from them, and sometimes I was uneasy about my condition, but I was what was called a moralist, but like the rest of my fellow beings in nature’s garden, at a guilty distance from God; and the most part of my time “I loved the distance well,” and went on in sin… |
